i remember my first render job...
like a foot deep nib on a wall knock through 3 sides thing..
didnt think to bead it up...
tried hard edging it using the trowel against the hawk over the corner..
spend ages playing with it..
then well it all slid down and fell off i mixed it up a bit thicker (bit more cement
)
thought 'that'll cure it!'..
so ive got what is now something like a 2:1 with tons of waterproofer in it..
stiff as f**k.
what i actually ended up with was a kind of bell shaped 'shroud' around the base of the nib which when i came back the day after had set like bleedin glass so there was me trying to chip it back something like straight using an old trowel...
i didnt devil float it either..
or float it at all come to that.. it was 'trowel' finished..
still skimmed the f**k*r though.. ;D